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FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers right inside your browser.

If you are too lazy to open your ftp client, then this add-on is created for you.

FireFTP Charity Project
The website has a charity project where if you donate, half of your donations will go to orphans in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

The author himself has adopted one kid from the orphanage. What a wonderful person he is.
He says:“This year my family and I have been able to adopt one of the children from the orphanage. (He’s the cute little kid in the photo to the right.)” They very much look alike, aren’t they?

Let me make my contribution…
http://fireftp.mozdev.org/

SiteVista - website testing service for various browser compatibility has been redesigned and got a new name - Litmus. And can be found at litmusapp.com now.

I am not sure if Microsoft has squeezed them to drop the Vista name from their site and URL.

With a new launch, they are offering some good promotion “Become a Litmus patron“, patrons get:

* Unlimited web page testing for two years
* Unlimited email testing for two years
* Full access to every Litmus feature now and in the future
* Priority email support
* Access to private discussion list with the other 74 package customers
* “Golden ticket” to give to a friend for a free, unlimited-testing three month Litmus account
* Numbered badge you can display on your web site
* First-look beta access to all forthcoming features

Prices for the promotion:

- Single user patron account - €325 with 25 active tests
- 10 user patron account just €995 with unlimited active tests

Only 75 patron accounts are being offered, and as of now only 58 accounts is remaining. So if you want to become a patron, you should act now. litmusapp.com/promotion

This is a good offer for a web design companies, but not necessarily for freelance web designers.

litmusapp.com

Have you accidentally lost any data by closing the Firefox tab? If yes, then most probably you are not using PermaTabs plugin.

After you have installed PermaTabs, right-clicking on any tab in Firefox and choosing “Permanent Tab” from the menu will disable the close button for that particular tab. This will make that tab impossible to be closed, unless of course you un-PermaTab it ;) It’s particularly useful for Email tabs.

I am sure most of you knew about this plugin, but it might be new to some readers.

This is a nice tool to check if your web site works with all popular web browsers. You can test and receive screen captures from different browsers in minutes. It’s especially good if you want to make sure that your site works without error in all browsers. The test results include:

Browsers: Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 5.5, Internet Explorer 5 (Win), Internet Explorer 5 (Mac), Internet Explorer 4, Netscape Navigator 8, Netscape Navigator 7, Netscape Navigator 6, Netscape Navigator 4, Safari 2, Firefox 1, Mozilla 1.7.

Resolution: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768.

Colors: 256 color, High color (thousands), True color (millions).

Here is how it looks in the members area:

Price: Monthly: $29, One week: $19, One day: $9

www.sitevista.com

“Prefetching” is the silent loading of links in the background before you click them. This speeds up browsing because in many cases, by the time you click a link it is already cached on your machine and there is zero load time needed.

By default, Firefox prefetches links which are explicitly marked by the web page designer to be prefetched. This is seldom done in practice, so you rarely benefit from it.

Fasterfox’s “Enhanced Prefetching” causes all of the links on the page to be eligible for prefetching, which leads to a very noticeable difference in snappiness while surfing the web. Download it at fasterfox.mozdev.org

Google has released the Google Toolbar BETA for Firefox. Get it at http://toolbar.google.com/firefox

Netcraft has launched Firefox version of it’s toolbar. It is a useful toolbar similar to Google Toolbar showing the probability rate of the site being a phishing site. Risk rating is calculated based on the site history, where it is hosted, how long it has been online…etc check it out

FireFox browser has been downloaded 50 million times, to celebrate this FireFox is giving away specially designed FireFox Coins to people who have done a great job of promoting this open source web browser. The coins were designed by volunteer Jamey Bojé